[support] Extra sitewide variables/configuration - where best to put them?

[Metzler, David]

The last time I needed some site/theme specific variables, I developed a
little one-off custom module called evergreen_settings.  I made a
settings form to access this information.  I do think this is the best
course of action. 

You do need to learn enough of the forms api to do develop a settings
page.  I then accessed these variable_gets from within my themes.  

If you're interested in going down this road, I'd be happy to share the
module with you.  You'd have to rename/customize it for your own site. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of sessy
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:17 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Extra sitewide variables/configuration - where
best to put them?

AFAIK you can call variable_get() from the template.php file, than use
http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/_phptemplate_variables to "inject"
the data.

s

On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:53:15 +0100
J-P Stacey <jp.stacey at torchbox.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We're building a site for a client that's taking donations on a 
> rolling basis. We'd therefore like to have e.g. the running total of 
> donations stored in some centralized place that the client can update,

> and I was wondering where would be the right place to put that.
> 
> Any ideas? Extra input fields on admin/settings/site-information would

> feel right, but I'm not sure how to hook into that or if so how to get

> at the additional content from within PHPTemplate.
> 
> Best regards,
> J-P
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